You ever just watch a YouTube guide but dont really learn anything or dont know where to go afterwards? well i made a meme about it if you have felt this way.

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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 13 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

A fun way to do this (IMO) is to pick some really simple classic game, and remake it. Something like Minesweeper, but pick something that's at least sort of related to the concepts you want to learn.

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

This is a fantastic approach.

I wanted to learn web-dev so I built a blog and a web hostable 5e character generator. Ended up learning authentication, HTTP stuff, database management, and learned CSS and HTML to handle the frontend (backend is Python).

They're not production ready, there's not even a proper server built in, just a basic wsgi dev server, but I'm proud of it and it taught me a ton!

[–] damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago

I did the same! Wanted to learn golang, so I built a blog. Kept it simple and used other tech I knew already for the css and backend. Didn’t even enable uploads. This way, I learned go much faster than if I had learned it from scratch. The basics are good. But we’re not trying to be experts. We’re trying to have fun and build stuff.

[–] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I do this pretty regularly, with a default order. First is a simple guess the number game, then I update it to hangman. After that is either pong or minesweeper. Depending on what I’m learning that should be enough, or I can extend them in some way, such as multi-window pong or turning minesweeper into network battleship.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 3 points 12 hours ago

I think Minesweeper is a great tutorial game. It forces you to learn different variable types, data structures, loops and user input at a minimum, and it's really easy to expand on to make it more complex without requiring unique or difficult logic. Turning it into Battleship is a fun progression - I hadn't considered that, but I like it!